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Fire code compliance in Hackensack, New Jersey

The New Jersey Uniform Fire Code is enforced in Hackensack by the town's own local enforcing agency, the City of Hackensack Fire Prevention Bureau. This page names that agency and the chapters of the city code our code book lists for Hackensack.

The local facts

Who enforces the fire code in Hackensack, and under which chapters

Local enforcing agency
City of Hackensack Fire Prevention Bureau
Municipality
City of Hackensack, Bergen County

The City of Hackensack code chapters

  • Chapter 88, Fire PreventionCity of Hackensack codeRelated, not from this chapter: non-life-hazard uses are registered with the municipality under its local fire-prevention ordinance and inspected by the local fire official on the local cycle.

From our code book, word for word: “City of Hackensack Fire Prevention Bureau. Code: Chapter 88, Fire Prevention.”

Chapter numbers and titles are from the City of Hackensack code. General information about published codes, not legal advice. The fire official's word controls, so ask the City of Hackensack Fire Prevention Bureau when a question is close.

State rules

The state fire code comes first. The local chapters sit beside it.

The New Jersey Uniform Fire Code (N.J.A.C. 5:70) governs a building in use and applies to every building except owner-occupied one- and two-family homes. Life Hazard Uses are registered with the state Division of Fire Safety and inspected on the state's schedule. Every other use the fire code applies to is registered with the municipality under its local fire-prevention ordinance and inspected by the local fire official. The use decides which list a building goes on. The owner does not choose.

Commercial vs. residential codes, in plain language →

How Safety City helps

One calendar, one file, and a person who shows up

The free 30-minute walkthrough: we walk every device and every cylinder, photograph the tags, and leave a written gap list with the code citation next to each item. It is yours whether or not you hire us.

All services → · What we check on a walkthrough, system by system →

For clients: the Hackensack code book. Clients see every code-book entry for Hackensack in the client portal: 3 entries written for Hackensack, section by section, alongside the county, state, and federal entries above them. Sign in to the client portal.